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Cue integration in spatial search for jointly learned landmarks but not for separately learned landmarks--Supplementary materials
Download2016-01-01
McMillan, Neil, Spetch, Marcia L., Du, Yu, Madan, Christopher R., Mou, Weimin
We investigated how humans use multiple landmarks to locate a goal. Participants searched for a hidden goal location along a line between two distinct landmarks on a computer screen. On baseline trials, the location of the landmarks and goal varied, but the distance between each of the landmarks...
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Cue Interaction between Buildings and Street Configurations during Reorientation in Familiar and Unfamiliar Outdoor Environments
Download2017-07-24
Weimin Mou, Peter Dixon, Lin Wang
Two experiments investigated how people use buildings and street configurations to reorient in large-scale environments. In immersive virtual environments, participants learned objects’ locations in an intersection consisting of four streets. The objects’ locations were specified by two cues: a...
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Cultural Empathy in Intercultural Interactions: The Development and Validation of the Intercultural Empathy Index
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Zhang, Ying Shan Doris, Noels, Kimberly A.
Based on discussions of cultural empathy in intercultural communication and counseling and multicultural psychology, this paper presents a model and a measure of cultural empathy suited for a broad range intercultural interactions - the Intercultural Empathy Index (IEI). We examined the IEI’s...
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2019-03-20
Xuehui Lei, Weimin Mou, Lei Zhang
This study investigated the extent to which people can develop a global representation of local environments through across-boundary navigation. Participants learned objects’ locations in two misaligned rectangular rooms in an immersive virtual environment. After learning, they adopted a local...
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Differential immediate early gene activity revealed by playback of male and female incomplete chick-a-dee calls
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Scully, E.N., Montenegro, C., & Sturdy, C.B.
In both humans and animals, biological differences between males and females has long been a topic of research. In songbirds, sexual dimorphisms can be seen in many species’ plumage and heard in some species’ songs. However, not all songbirds have such overt phenotypic sexual differences, leading...
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Effect of feed-time duration on discrimination of vocalizations in a go/no-go operant paradigm
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Refining and modifying experimental procedures play a vital role in improving methodology while also reducing animal distress. In this study, we asked if an increase in feed time duration affects discrimination in an operant go/no-go task. Specifically, we used zebra finches’ sexually dimorphic...
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Effect of Room Size on Geometry and Features Cue Preference during Reorientation: Modulating Encoding Strength or Cue Weighting
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Three experiments investigated how the room size affects preferential use of geometric and non-geometric cues during reorientation inside a room. We hypothesized that room size may affect preferential use of geometric and non-geometric cues by affecting the encoding of the cues (the encoding...
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Features of Male- and Female-Produced Song in Black-Capped Chickadees (Poecile Atricapillus) Change Between Seasons
Features of Male- and Female-Produced Song in Black-Capped Chickadees (Poecile Atricapillus) Change Between Seasons
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Campbell, K. A., Thunberg, S., & Sturdy, C. B.
Of the 10 000 or so known avian species, nearly half belong to the clade Passeri[1]. Also called Oscines, or songbirds, birds in this group are unique in that they possess a morphologically complex vocal organ, the syrinx, which facilitates the production of complex and diverse vocalizations,...
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Figures for the Manuscript titled as 'Superior Cognitive Mapping through Single-landmark-related Learning than through Boundary-related Learning'
Figures for the Manuscript titled as 'Superior Cognitive Mapping through Single-landmark-related Learning than through Boundary-related Learning'
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Cognitive mapping is assumed to be through hippocampus-dependent place learning rather than striatum-dependent response learning. However, we propose that either type of spatial learning, as long as it involves encoding metric relations between locations and reference points, could lead to a...
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Hear them roar: A comparison of black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) and human (Homo sapiens) perception of arousal in vocalizations across all classes of terrestrial vertebrates
Download2019-05-16
Jenna V. Congdon, Allison H. Hahn, Piera Filippi, Kimberley A. Campbell, John Hoang, Erin N. Scully, Daniel L. Bowling, Stephan A. Reber, Christopher B. Sturdy
Recently, evidence for acoustic universals in vocal communication was found by demonstrating that humans can identify levels of arousal in vocalizations produced by species across three biological classes (Filippi et al., 2017). Here, we extend this work by testing whether two vocal learning...